Two Year Courses
More and more people come to MPW these days for the full
two years of their sixth-form careers. In all three colleges the majority
of all A level exams are taken by first-attempt students.
All MPW colleges offer a very broad range of two-year courses with no restriction on the subjects that you can study in combination. In common with all our other courses, class sizes are limited to an absolute maximum of eight students in any one group. There is mock exam practice right the way through both years of your course. Most two-year A level courses at MPW include four AS levels in the lower sixth before specialising in three of these subjects at A2 level in the upper sixth. The choice of A2 subjects need not be made until the results of the AS levels are known. AS scores on units taken in the lower sixth may, where appropriate, be improved during the upper sixth.
Students on two-year courses
at MPW are offered a range of extracurricular activities, including
sports, debating etc, but the range is not as wide as you might experience
at a traditional school. The extracurricular activities and courses that
we do offer are voluntary for those over 16. Students join our sixth-form
primarily in order to focus on their A level studies within an atmosphere
in which they can enjoy working hard. You will find our colleges friendly,
the tutors experienced and enthusiastic and the atmosphere positive and
conducive to success.
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One Year Courses
Self-contained courses covering the entire AS/A2 syllabus in one year. Appropriate if:-
You’re a retake student but your previous grade is
too weak to risk a short course from September to January.
You’re a retake student, so you know what A levels
are about but you want to ditch a subject you didn’t like and offer a
brand new one instead. Allows you to rethink your UCAS options since you
have a new A level base. Gives you a fresh start to motivate yourself
during those first few weeks of a retake A Level course. Allows you to avoid
‘retake status’ in at least one of your subjects - makes you more
attractive to universities.
You’re transferring from the lower-sixth of another
school. (A surprisingly large number of students do this.) You’re too good
for the two-year, ‘start-again’ course, but equally we can’t risk letting
you join the upper-sixth of our own two-year course because we don’t trust
that you’ve covered the same material properly. You might have been doing
a different syllabus or covering it in a different order. You need to
cover the full syllabus but at an accelerated pace. It’s tricky so you
need a lot of advice first and a longer interview than normal. In the
first instance you can ask for preliminary advice by phoning or emailing
us.
You’ve just done GCSEs but you’re bright. You
think (and have convinced us) that you can do more than three A levels.
You want to stagger four or five A level courses over two years, and that means at
least one of them might be a good idea on a one-year basis.
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